Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TWENTY eight Of the thirty-nine counties
of Washi gton Territory have elected women
as school suPerlntendeuls.
A VIRGINIA Justice Of the Peace has fined a
fisherman 81 Tor contend ng in open court
that the moon had anything 10 do with The
e and fl w of the tides. Brudder Jasper,
oil Richmond, had better go slow on ''De sun
he 10 move" theory.
AN Illinois postmaster robbed the mails
aEsi was sent to tate prison for it. There, in
| xieM of his experience as stamp-lcker. he
| Was made pris postmaster, and now he has
r. A')e the pr1son mail. He would be good
nan'to lend 70 come country we don't like.
THIS 4 tha quick way they recruit their
army IN Mexieos "A colonel, icing short of
men, sent lgtx tro5s ere into sonoro town,
ana tl.ey Tan down q forty cltizsps,
enssoss. ana haA IN senseAced 50 g. sys ia
tae arm y for one scar. An this Jo0k place IN
less Tran haif d day. .ssHass
A REMARKABLE BoTcoTr is in progress In
! Galveston. A female competitor of that city,
| a member Of the printers union. married n
non-unlon compost or and then tried 10 gei
| MN TO ION the or er. He refuse /, anu the
| unlIn voted a boycott in which the wife par
| tici ated, having left her husband and begun
| proceedings for u divorce.
A MASON CITY, IA, man has invented
| high-spe compound engine composed OF
only seven parts, which is the marvel of ma
| cuInists. Every part run in oil. There is
nothing of it like the common engine; no
valves, pOrt-hol. s, eccentric, Cross head,
| PACKING boxes valves or dead centre. 1t Will
make 1900 revolutions minute.
1HFRE is always a share competition for
the position of meanest man In thu world.
Every few days some paper comes forward
with a n W candidate. he Baltimore Amer
| lean has Iii covered a man VINO seems 10 have
alf tgfeuf E,ra,
j. CLERK T. The pension Office It Washington.
number OF the male emp es have been
absent Of late, owing TO Illness On their re-
| turG TO duty the g er6 OBLIGED them to axe
oath as To the trnthfnlnes, OF neir I temen =
| before a no airy public. lie himself holds
| that office, anu lie charged them 30 cents
| APP ece.
| THE latest addition to the British navy is a
| double scr steel aTmored cruiser, named
the Phaeton, OF 1850 tons and 5000 horse pow
er. The other day when a tremendous
| gale expec' ed by the weather observers.
| the admiralty sent the Phaetnn out to test
| her seato lng qualities. She rode the storm
! finely. In fair weather she attained II so
| knots. She has four masts. and can -preat
| an enormous amour, of canvas. she carrie
| two tunnels. She has crew of 2S3 men
| Her armament consists of ten s1X-lnch
! breechloadlug guns, sixteen machine guns,
and she carries four torpedo guns, twelve
| torpedoes and TWO torpedo Launches.
| MRS SOPHIA BIBB, VINO recently dled at
| NJ IN gomery. Ala, at the age of 81. was active
| for manN years in tpe pnnanthroptc work in
! hat city. The following incident # her
career curing the war is told: When she was
! President 81 tito 10 pital Society sixty
| wounded Feder1s were brought 10 the CT v
| and tn re was no place 10 pui them. Mrs.
| Blob said: "Put them n the ladies' hospital.
| They are suffering men and no distinction
hal be made between them and our own
| boys" When the Federal- took he city one
| Ut the first acts OF the commander was o send
guard and place IL about her H. use, and no
one as allowed to modest her or any thing
she owned.
ANE the hanging Of woman In New
| York State for a brutal murder, little more
than hu dred years ago, women were pub
| iicly whipped a. the whipping post by the
stocks, or at any carts tail. The fierce
| statutes against vagrant- of Henry VII 5
| ana EhZabeth's reign made no disiInc ION of
| sex, and their ferociOuS prov 8 ons to the
| effect hat ''otfeuders should be stripped from
| the middle upward. and whipped till the
| body shou be bloody" long cont nued in
| force. Men with their wives and chlldre n
| were logged puOdciy, and sometimes by or
| der of lht clergy man Of he parish. Girls IF
| Il and l3, aged women of 50, all suffered alike;
| " omen distract d that Is, out of their minds,
were arresttd ~ dashed, and all " no walked
| about the country and begged.